What a week!
We have completed two displays. One by painting dinosaurs and another by drawing our favourite dinosaur independently. The children have really thought about their paintings and recreated all the characteristics that make them unique.
We have added to our wow words dictionary with words such as extinct, fossils, herbivore, carnivore and omnivore and all the names of the dinosaurs…they are really tricky! We are definitely being challenged!
On Wednesday we read the scary story ‘Wolf’s Coming’, it’s one of our favourites. We noticed at the end of the story there was a pin the tail on the donkey game at Wolf’s birthday party. We decided to make a pin the tail on the dinosaur. What great fun we had, we pinned stegosaurus’ tail in very odd places. Click here to be scared!
Worship - Created to Love Others
This week we explored the individual’s relationship with others. Building on the understanding that we have been created out of love and for love. We talked about how we take this calling into our family, friendships and relationships, and learnt strategies for developing healthy relationships and keeping safe both online and in our daily lives. Click on the button below to discuss the slides.
Emma’s blog
Hello everyone,
We have been so busy this week working our brains.
We had a fantastic time with Mr Nay this week. He was helping us to practice our throwing, and he gave the children some shuttlecocks to throw around. The children loved this as they could see how far they would fly through the air. Mr Nay and Mr Murray had hung a huge parachute with a target on, and Mr Nay asked the children if they could throw the shuttlecocks to try to hit a particular colour. When some of the children hit the bullseye and we all cheered. We had so much fun.
We have been making some tricky assault courses in the garden to help build the childrens strength and to work their muscles. The course involved climbing and balancing which also helped them with there confidence. We made our own pretend ball pit using bits of foam which the children loved falling into.
We are continuing our dinosaur topic and are very excited that we have found 'dough disco dinosaurs'. It's brilliant and the children got to make a herbivore chewing leaves, the diplodocus neck and the pterodactyl’s beak. Here is the link for you to have a go at home, have fun.
To concentrate on strengthening our hand muscles, and practice using our knife and fork, I made a dinosaur spaghetti swamp but the only way for the dinosaurs to get though it wasfor the children to cut the spaghetti up using their knife and fork. Let's hope some of the dinosaurs didn't get stuck.
We have been busy continuing to work on our letter sounds and our numbers, and we have been working our brains with our maths mastery wall, working out how many animals are in the grassy field and the flower meadow, then adding the total together, a bit like a number strory. The children enjoyed getting involved. Here is a link to a number ordering game for you to try at home. Click here.
I hope you all have a great weekend, and with the weather being so cold, wrap up and stay cosy.
Emma
Michelle’s Blog
Hello everyone and welcome to this week's blog.
We have continued exploring and investigating dinosaurs.
We have been investigating what a t-rex ate and how they found their food. We have found out about carnivores, and herbivores and also omnivores.
We looked closely at the t rex this week and we discovered the head of a t rex was 1.5 metres wide. We measured this and this is as wide as 6 children or 3 nursery ladies
Justine very kindly shared her photos of her visit to a real dinosaur fossil in Manchester Museum. Thank you Justine. This is a very worthwhile trip to make if you are looking for a day out. The museum can be found on Oxford Road in Manchester.
We have been very busy making our own dinosaurs, painting, drawing and using junk materials
Emma let us help her in her activity to cut up the swamp spaghetti to help the dinosaurs feed. But we only had knives and forks! It was tricky. Using a knife and fork is an essential skill and one your child will need to master. Let them have as much practice with this at mealtimes as you can.
As well as PE on Monday and Tuesday, we now have a session on Wednesday. This week we practiced our running skills and our throwing skills. So much fun.
Apologies for the link not working last week for the dinosaur discovery game. Here it is again. Click here
Have a good weekend and we will see you next week.
Michelle
Justine’s trip to the museum
Parent questionnaire
Thank you to everyone that has managed to complete this years questionnaire, it is greatly appreciated. Don’t worry if you have not had time yet I have attached another copy, just in case you have a few moment this weekend.
Parent ‘Drop In’ session
This half term we will be holding our drop in session on February 6th from 3.45-4.45 pm. This is a great opportunity to have an informal catch up with the nursery team and to see what we have been doing. Please try and pop in for five minutes we would love to see you…no appointment necessary.
Andy’s Dinosaur adventures
If you fancy finding our more about dinosaurs click here
Meet the Dinos click here
Inspired by our discovery of all kinds of dinosaurs we have written a song and also a started our own dino story.
Ask your child to sing our dinosaur song…its funny! When we have finished our story I will put it on the blog!
Next week we are planning to meet Number 6 and a new set of sounds. We are sooo excited. Keep practicing at home!
I hope the weather isn’t too cold this weekend although a bit of snow may be fun!
Have a lovely weekend everyone and I will see you on Monday morning bright eyed and bushy tailed.
Keep safe and God bless.
Barbara